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  1. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    Nope and don't expect nationwide reciprocity any time soon.
    Granted the House passed H.R. 822, but it won't go anywhere in the Senate. Not to say it does kind of step all over states rights.

  2. Re:TFA missed the most important consideration on Is TV Over the 'Net Really Cheaper Than Cable? · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on CenturyLink. I have never had their service yet just this year I started getting email's from them with someone else's account information. By information I mean they sent me their bills their passwords, basically everything I would need to access and change their account. After 3 months of trying to get them to stop (they basically said they couldn't do anything) I reported them to the FCC. My they changed their tune quickly. All of a sudden they wanted to do what ever they could for me. But honestly that company could care less about your privacy, so I would advise you to stay as far away from them as possible.

  3. Re:Consider the threats. on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    Can you accurately explain what a "DOD Wipe" is? No?

    If you are talking about this DoD 5220.22-M 3-pass, then you should know 1.that it is obsolete, and 2.THIS METHOD IS NOT APPROVED FOR SANITIZING MEDIA THAT CONTAINS TOP SECRET INFORMATION.

    For modern disks, a single pass will render it unrecoverable.

  4. Re:Wipe on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    low-level format?? what are you stuck in the 80's. There is no such thing outside of scsi drives.

    Starting in the late 1980s, driven by the volume of IBM compatible PCs, HDDs became routinely available pre-formatted with a compatible low-level format. At the same time, the industry moved from historical (dumb) bit serial interfaces to modern (intelligent) bit serial interfaces and Word serial interfaces wherein the low level format was performed at the factory.
    Today, an end-user, in most cases, should never perform a low-level formatting of an IDE or ATA hard drive, and in fact it is often not possible to do so on modern hard drives outside of the factory

  5. Re:DBAN! on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    Most likely you will get a question from the IT dept asking why you think you can just wipe one of their machines, Then a quick meeting with your boss as the IT dept moves your machine from your desk and starts digging for the information you want to hide. If someone asked me that question I would instantly think that someone was up to no good. It is not his machine, he has no authority to do any of these steps. Do you really want to leave your employer wondering what you did or what you stole. Not a great way to get a glowing recommendation.

  6. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    Actually windows 7 defaults to quick format, there is your explanation for a 2 minute format. Yes I just tested it.

  7. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    First, no they can't, 2nd What company is going to waste money trying to recover data from a workstation. Why would they care about gaining access to someones personal information when any attempt at using it would open them up to both civil and criminal charges?
    The amount of paranoid responses on here saying "do a 9 pass dban" are ridiculous.

    Clean your cache, delete your personal files, empty the recycle bin and your done. If you Boss wants to recover your data and scour through your personal files why the hell did you spend 9 years working for him?

    A single pass writing zeroes to a modern hard drive will render recovery impossible for all intensive purposes. The cost of attempting to perform a recovery (no guaranty of success) would be far more then the value of anything you may have deleted, and if your workstation was backed up then they already have your data and there is nothing you can do about it.

  8. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? · · Score: 1

    Why you think it's a roaming profile from the GGP's post is beyond me as SBS backup does a drive image plus file backup. It has nothing to do with roaming profiles. I

  9. Re:Citizens United did that ... on Washington, D.C. Police Affirm Citizens' Right To Record Police Officers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate to correct but to say our rights derive from the Will of The People is completely false. Our rights are inherent, we are imbued with them by our creator. The Will of The People is what stops the government from infringing on them.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

  10. Re:Just Stop! on World Population Grows Beyond 7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yes because living on welfare is such a reward. I really doub t you would consider section 8 housing an improvement in your lifestyle. Please remember that the myth of welfare queens is just that, a myth. And notice the majority of those programs are there to help the children. It's not like these people are living large.

  11. Re:not going to touch that on Man Who Protested TSA By Stripping Is Acquitted By Judge · · Score: 4, Informative

    While the supreme court may agree with you I fail to see how they reached that verdict.

    6th Amendment:
    In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law

    Article 3, Section 2
    Article III, Section 2, provides that crimes, except impeachment cases, must be tried before a jury, unless the defendant waives his or her right. The trial must be held in the state where the crime was committed. If the crime was not committed in any particular state, then the trial is held in such a place as set forth by the Congress.

    Can someone explain to me where this 6 month imprisonment waiver comes from. I can't see a lot of wiggle room in there.

    Many states still require jury trials for all crimes, but I can't find a list.

  12. Re:Not related on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 1

    Umm whats this.

    Yes they have killed the xserve line but the Mac Pro uses server hardware and works quite well as one.

  13. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    Lightsquared anted to "SELL" internet to everyone, they certainly didn't want to give anything away.

  14. Re:two arguments against electronic voting: on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Crazy thing about it, is the people who understand electronics, programming, computers in general, mostly the people who come here, are the ones who are most worried about the move to e-voting. Why would you go with a technology when the "experts" don't trust it.

  15. Re:Well, they're not part of the process yet... on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Now I was able to get in on the joke

  16. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    Then please tell me how the moisture in the air gets to the upper layers of the atmosphere where it actually forms?

  17. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 2

    Ok read your article. It seems the primary reason for the increased ice in the Bering sea as compared the rest of the arctic, which has seen a decline in sea ice coverage, was due to winds blowing the ice down to the Bering strait where it backed up until the ice wall finally collapsed and the ice then flowed into the Bering sea while the low temperatures helped keep it frozen.

    Not sure what point you are trying to make with it, as it even mentions the record highs in the continental US.

  18. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except snow doesn't form down here, it forms high up in the atmosphere, to get that water up there you have to have heat to drive the saturated air up. Notice it snows far heavier on the warmer winter days. Once the temp drops well below freezing the chances of snow are greatly reduced.

  19. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 4, Informative

    So I am wrong, care to educate me, o' weather scientist. Are you saying moisture density in the air is not increased by heat? And why would it have to be colder for more snow. I find that snow is more likely to fall closer to the freezing point, in fact the temperature generally rises when it snows.
    Basically what I am saying is it can get too cold to snow (well not really but the probability the conditions for snow are vastly reduced), below 0F you really don't get much precipitation. Snow requires a few things to occur before you see those white flakes. 1 Moisture saturation, the more moisture in the air means the higher probability of snow, 2. Temperature, must allow the ice crystals to stay frozen on their way down, 3 a temperature difference between the lower atmosphere and the area where snow develops. On really cold days there is not enough heat to drive the saturated air to the very cold layers of the atmosphere where snow forms

    Oh wait you said I was wrong? Hmm guess not.

  20. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Again how is more snow show that the warming trend is wrong? Snow is a product of moisture in the atmosphere not the temperature (unless it rises above say around 38 degrees). I would argue that more moisture is a product of warmer temperatures due to evaporation.

  21. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 4, Informative

    More snow does not mean cooler temps. More snow means more moisture in the air.

  22. Re:Obama knows how to play politics if anything. on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    Don't read much do ya? " neither is true."

  23. Redundant, we have already solved this problem on Swiss Solar Powered Catamaran Finishes 'Round the World Tour · · Score: 3, Informative

    2 of these http://chetcomarine.com/coleman130wsolarpanel.aspx, 1 of these http://www.wholesalesolar.com/products.folder/wind-folder/airx48marine.html.

    Replace my 30 hp Yanmar Diesel with an electric motor. I really only use it for docking and mooring, I'll luff through the doldrums. I worry more about too much wind rather than not enough.

    Double my current 6 6v golf cart batteries. and I could circumnavigate in comfort, and use all my gadgets.

    and I'd need a new boat, my little Pearson is fun for the coast but I think the ocean would break her

    Just saying that we have better ways to perform the task already.

  24. Re:Fucking units, how do they work? on Swiss Solar Powered Catamaran Finishes 'Round the World Tour · · Score: 1

    So almost the entire usable area of the deck is wasted for the solar panels. Get a sailboat and do it safer and with more style.
    Not sure I'd want to be on that thing in heavy weather,

  25. Re:Impressive, but on Swiss Solar Powered Catamaran Finishes 'Round the World Tour · · Score: 2

    And most cruising boats worth their metal have solar cells that provide enough power to charge the batteries for night time use. This is really a non story. I know some guys who would rather wait for the wind then start up the diesel.